Joanne Greenberg Quotes
The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.
There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.
The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.
The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.
The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".
"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"
Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.
suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious crime of all.
Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.
What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?
Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank?
suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.
The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.
She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.
The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of meaning itself.